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August 2018

August 30, 2018

The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska's annual pow wow is September 14-16, 2018 in White Cloud, Kansas. The event draws people from all over the country to celebrate dance, culture and heritage.

Friday evening, September 14th is Camp Night.

Registration for dancers opens at 10:00 A.M. on Saturday, September 15. Gourd Dancing begins at 11:00 A.M. Grand Entry will take place at 1:00 P.M. and 7:00 P.M. that day.

On Sunday the Jr./Princess contest is at 10:00 A.M., registration for dancers is at 11:00 A.M. (closes at noon), Grand Entry at 1:00 P.M.

Vendors are welcome ($50/craft; $100/food; $150/both). First six drums to be paid. For more information contact Rebekka Schlichting at becca.shlichting@gmail.com. For directions to the pow wow grounds, call 785-595-6632.

Note: No pets are allowed in the dance area. Not responsible for lost or stolen items.

August 17, 2018

The award-winning documentary Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City, produced by Kelly and Tammy Rundle of Fourth Wall Films, has received a Mid-America Emmy® nomination. This is the Rundles' fourth Regional Emmy® nomination. The film is an official selection at the 11th Annual Iowa Independent Film Festival and will screen August 24-25 in Clear Lake and Mason City, Iowa. For festival details/tickets visit https://www.iifilmfestival.org/.

The Moline, Illinois-based independent production company successfully competed with 42 proposals by 36 other media production companies nationwide to win a contract to produce "Good Earth" for the visitors center at South Dakota's newest State Park, Good Earth at Blood Run. The film can be seen at the Visitors Center daily during operational hours.

Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City tells the fascinating and forgotten story of the Blood Run National Historic Landmark as told by a Native American grandfather to his grandchildren. Produced in 4K, the documentary combines vivid present-day views of the park's scenic vistas and wildlife with dramatic historical reenactments portraying daily life in the year 1650.

The Good Earth site in Iowa and South Dakota was occupied between 1500 and 1725 by ancestors of the present-day Omaha, Ponca, Ioway and Otoe-Missouria tribes, making it one of the oldest long-term habitation sites in the United States. At its peak around 1650, the site was home to 6,000-10,000 residents--more than Boston (2,000) and New York (New Amsterdam-1,000) in that same year--making It the largest city in what is now the United States.

Good Earth was an important Native trading center for pipestone, bison hides and culture. The once-vibrant city featured hundreds of lodges, earthen mounds, and a serpent-shaped effigy mound an eighth of a mile long.

Good Earth: Awakening the Silent City will screen at the Iowa Independent Film Festival on:

The Rundles are the producers of the award-winning Lost Nation: The Ioway series, The Barn Raisers,Movie Star: The Secret Lives of Jean Seberg (with McMarr, Ltd.), Villisca: Living with a Mystery; the Emmy® nominated Country School: One Room - One Nation, River to River: Iowa's Forgotten Highway 6, and Letters Home to Hero Street (with WQPT); and the soon-to-be released docudrama Sons & Daughters of Thunder.